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being able to use the GUI, using a relatively straight forward method, without having to have access to root.

as an example my wife sometimes will generate documents [on her notebook] which she would like to print on the PC on another part of the network.
Giver is useful in some situations. Giver being the equivalent of shouting over the cubicle wall "send me that file" :)
my method has been the old reliable , send myself an email with the document attached & open it on the computer connected to the printer. which is fine for what it is.
I personally would like to be able to tidy up files from what ever computer on the network, which has so far been a fairly arduous task. I generally do this task by physically plugging in the external HDD that serves as our back up & manually matching the files up.

My personal situation aside,
I find it interesting that the process for sharing using Nautilus nearly works, but has not quite been finished, the various bug teams playing "hot potato" with the problem...

I do not understand such effort , because instead of mailing, sharing, moving HDD, you can just attach this printer and print.
Or organize some server with shared storage
Or if You insist to use share from particular machine just define one folder as shared and copy documents in to the folder

my question is more procedural how do administrators handle issues of file sharing for in house networks?
different companies would have different security protocols
would this work out of the box in an enterprise version [red hat]?
different organizations are going to require different amounts of administrator intervention, is this an ongoing issue?
or would you more normally set up servers, instead of sharing across the network in this way?
since my link doesn't seem to work, I'll post again
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ source/samba/ bug/592610

In big companies I know is forbidden to share local disks. If you need to send to someone file usually is used e-mail. In some companies are available servers with shared folders, but somewhere not. Mostly are available shared places as sharepoint servers or team room in Domino.

An alternative is to use "Dropbox". It is a free service that provides 2GB of on-line storage (https://www.dropbox.com/gs). It has password protection.

I have a laptop and a desktop that have Windows and Wubi installs and like to share the files within and across systems. I also find that the "Share option" (via the "Properties" window does not work (returns an error "'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. The connection was refused. Maybe smbd is not running") when I try to "share" a of the WIndows folder on the same PC. I did set up using a "link", but would end up with occasional file corruption on the WIndows side. I also tried moving the "windows folder" to another partition (same PC), but each time I log in to Ubuntu, the link shows up as broken and needs to be re-established. Dropbox has been a workable solution (also good for occasional backup).

Hi,
Just write the files on a huge flash under one of the OS and read them under the other, if you have in mind user files only.
As far as i know you cannot share the drivers of the peripheral devices.
Regards

the process is actually easier in a mixed OS environment
all the files in question would be content
documents, music files, pictures
different machines on the network being used in different ways a majority of the time, but serving as backup for each other

Sharing folders in home network has at least several different solutions. Please forgive me but I don't see a problem. Set up any kind of file sharing server on one or more computers and put/get your files to/from that machine when necessary.

Example:
NFS - any directory can be exported and visible on any other machine in your network (some troubles with windows machines)
FTP - requires dedicated application, but can be served from almost anywhere - even windows explorer is able to connect to ftp shares.
samba - can be used by both Linux and Unix, a bit more complicated configuration is required

All 3 solutions require one-time action on each machine you consider to use. Then it goes flawless. If you need details on one or more - let me know.

This is why I like Thunar over Nautilus. It just seems easier. In either case user shares (config in /var/lib/samba) are not the same as shares in smb.conf and tend to be prone to permissions issues. The system-config-samba package is easier and more reliable (for me anyway)

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